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Show IMPROVEMENT MADE1N MODERN TYPE OF BABY BEEF ANIMAL INDAT BY Predicted It Will Conlftme to Increase In Popularity la Those- DlatrlcU Whr Farmers Do Not Wish to Dairy Vast Rang Arena In Wat liars Been Cut Up Into Small Farms Meredith Wichotson JLLLkSTRATlOm RAY WALTERS corrRKur tfor BY ra ev SYNOPSIS. stumbled In the dark much of the time, Visa Patricia Holbrook and Ml Helen wanted to spare you. Miss Pat. Holbrook, her niece, were entrusted to "I brow that; and you tried to 'have ,1m care of Dauranre Donovan, writer. Hiss tummerlnR near Port Annandale. Helen. She was blind and misguided. she to Donoan that .wH Patricia confided She had believed in her father and the feared her brother Henry, who. ruined bv ti s bank failure, had constantly threatened Inst blow crushed her. Everything Donovan discovered and captured her. looks to dark to her. She refuses n Intruder, who proved to he Iteelnald Rime over this morning; Bhe thinks Gillespie, suitor for the hand of Helen. fHmovan saw Miss Holhrpok and her fa she can not face her uncle, her cousin meet on friendly terms Donovan , .tber fought an ItsrHim assassin. He met the oryou again." man he supposed was Holbrook, but who But she must come, J said. It said he was Hartrldge. a tanoe-tnake' Miss Pat announced her Intention of will he easier at later than any not seeking lighting Henry Holbrook and tithe Theres Gillespie, railing me another hiding place. Donovan met Helen ' v in at night. Duplicity of. Helen COW, ' He's going across the lake to ' wasgarden C... confessed by the young lady. At e., x y 1 meet v Arthur and Rosalind. shall night, disguised as a nun, Helen stole Gilmet from the house. She Reginald take the launch over to the Island to lespie, who told her his love. Gillespie bring Henry. We should all be back was confronted by Donovan. At the town A Bunch of Prlza Winning Feeders. atGlenarm in an hour. Please tell postofttee Helen, unseen except by Donoi van, slipped a draft for her father Into Helen that we must have her, that no the hand of the Italian sailor. A young Twenty-fiv- e years sgo the popular let bis calves lose wbat la known at onb should stay away. lady resembling Miss Helen Holbrook beef animal was a mountain' of meat 'calf fat It la well known that young was observed alone In a canoe, when Miss Pat looked at me oddly, and and tallow. Pasture land was cheap animals gain more rapidly In proporHelen was thought tohave been at home. her Angers touched a stalk ot holly-hop- and labor low In price; so tbe raiser tion to tbelr live weight and to 100 Gillespie admitted giving Helen 120.0(10 for her father, who had then left to spend It. beside her as her eyes rested would afford to keep the animal until pounds of food than do Blder animals. 'Miss Helen and Donovan met In the mine. night. She told him Gillespie was nothing It weighed a ton before putting It That Is, they not only made more to her. He confessed his love for her. Tbe buyer wanted economical use of their feed than tbe Larry," she said, "do not be sorty on the market Donovsn found Gillespie gagged and bound In a cabin. Inhabited hy the villot Helen If 'pity Is all you have for this kind of animal, for meat was older animals, but they take a shorter Italian and Holbrook. He released her ' lainous Tbs Both Gillespie and Donovan adhim. cheap and the consumer could buy time to make a certain total-gaimitted love for Helen. Calling herself man new have cute. who off and But I turns a factors hands. steer that seized her weigh laughed large Rosalind a "voice appealed to Donovan Miss Pat, I could not feel pity brought about a change In values.- - As 1,000 pounds, has.lt that calf weighed for help. She told him to go to the home and see that no Injury befor any one so skilled with the sword land and labor Increased In price the 100 pounds at birth, been given 10 per Gate. Red went to him. He fell as ahe! It would be gratuitous! She fanner found that the longer he kept cent of the total weight by the dam, home, Donovan At the canoe-makefound the brothers Arthur and Henry put up a splendid fight, and It's to her an animal the more of hla labor went while the man wbo keeps tbe animal Holbrook who had fought each other. In Arcredit that she stood by her father In maintenance and this lessened his till it weighs '1,250 pounds haa been consultation. "Rosalind" appeared. thur averted a murder. Donovan return and resented my Interference, as ahe profit Just that much. Then he fhund given only 8 per cent The man who lug. met Gillespie alone In the dead of bad every right to to. She waa not that the higher-pricelands could not can make a steer weigh 1,000 at 12 night. On Investigation he found Henry Holbrook, the Bailor, and Miss Helen It be Mias beef and used for rehlly merely you, that there was months haa more return for hie against Pat; In an argument. It was settled happened that you were In the way more money In raising corn. So men trouble than the man wbo keeps It and thev departed. Donovan met the rent Rosalind, who bv night he had supwhen she struck at me with the foil, who had been engaged In raising cat- 24 months, with aa additional weight Miss Helen Holbrook. She posed to be mlx-udont you see?" tle for market started raising corn, of only 250 pounds. Her father, Arthur revealed the r, while Holbrook, was the Not just that way, Larry," end and bought their steers from those Butchers, too, have changed to suit the was Holbrook, father Henry Helens and she continued to gaze at me with occupying cheap lands andflnlsbed the demand of the consumer. Ab erring brother. The cousins. Helen Rosalind, were as much alike as twins. tweet distress in her. eyes; then, them off themselves. Throughout the though meat Is generally considered Thus Helens supposed duplicity was Rosalind la very different," she added. corn belt tbe popular steer bae ranged a luxury In the diet of the poor manr visited Donovan, asking d. Helen ' fils assistance In bringing Miss Patricia I have observed It! The way a In for 24 to 30 months old, says tbs family, H aUU .remains an absolute . Holbrook and Henry Holbrook together which they are utterly unlike are re- Homestead. Tbe majority ot fattened necewritje In.the diet of the better for a settlement of their money affairs, which had kept them apart for many markable; but I mustntjceep Gillespie steere went to market at 30 months, classes.. But, where people formerly years. Donovsn refused to aid. He met for a little while!' weighing from 1,500 te 1,350 pounds. ordered large roasts and steaka, they a waiting. Good-bmaking coup. By and planned . Gillespie Gillespie give a cumber of forged notes o feed these are. ordering steaks and roasts , now A,nd some foreboding told me that The farmer preferred was he who supposed to Rosalind, animals because there Wat generally that are frea 60 each We Ought to Have Brought Homy Hero jjofrow bad not yet done with her. per cent smallHelen, so closely did they resemble 1 a the wav for r thVm In tbe mar- er on account of the advanced prices.. as shouted demand for ether, Donovan cleared Impatiently good Gniseple settlement of the Holbrook troubles. Oil I think," she said, turning toward like a gbost la tbe star dusk. He hdi toward him at tbe boathouse. ket When purchased from .western They find that If they get 'a small' evidence leapie had possessed the only and of the Holbrooks disgrace. The evidence ns all, with her aweet dignity, her paused at the western balustrade the cattle raisers they were In thin he roast from a large that it 8tlletto" called, pointfats Is securely hidden. Helen suddenlysubstibrave air, that touched me as at first looked off at 8L Agatha's. Then he ing to. where the sloop lay, midway of on ione. The butcher then te but were rugged, thrifty,' had Donovan prepared to me and gazing mine of Again,, words ruse and always, beyond any paused' passed tute Rosalind for lief. For a time the the lake, Shea in a bad way." good appetttes, and were in the beet ult the demand' fbf smaller bone de , . , eventually dlsoov-wpo$ as though admirably. Aunt Pat sug-ed,- storm had to describe, bnt strong and beautiful lakeward through blew .her The mands smaller InTmale; bring shape to make rapid galne. , ,v ered It however. Arthur Holbrook ... agreed to send up a rocket If In osnger. and sweet and thrilling through me turning from Helea to- Rosalind; and bnt the sight of the boat, list ., During the last few the last few months Hbey have been to tne of flare saw over the L 1 was VI Donovan knew .With her thi It Suddenly to now, like bugles blown at the fact thatthe sheep Industry? baa, . HTtmityn cm badly, aa though. fireworks. He end QHlesple ruahed had httle fcoRageaVRed think that we do wall, Arthury give the water. Hi the t tbtn, Henry been :k nsa ominously, snort smallwn wii aa. as. liiafngi q t chjug (wM1! ..iiiw n 4 Setter pick her up, he Uat d lrrlfstjng RroJecia, Jotr la f Concerned, j but they . . And now it waa Arthurs voice that prbea.hf.eam9 and , Stood beside me and ' he Was already dropping one ftf made frylt. raising successful, ,;vatt brought. the prce of; email steeri,- - ap I u rose in tbe shop; and It seemed that aad reeled hla hand a CHAPTER W ? rfDge areaa hav peek Cut into itoaU so close to that of the large one .that ,n,t0 lh he spoke of hla brother as of .one who knew that he wished to Tbb farms for settler .the bo havd nb 'inpuey there Is really a premium ' on' tittle .loop. .wlWy "I will hear what youhave to Bay, was afar off.- We listened wltji pain- en and l,took hla hand,ud kpke to a storm from fretful to the, In atm, Invest Vf cattla Then, too. great tears when we consider he cost oP Arthur," aald Mlaa Pat; and I knew ful intentness to this man who had suf- him to make it easier. 1 -hut tbe iky waa without fleck numbers of cows and young stock are production. Ushlng, 'f "t-- ' v that there waa no arresting the tide. fered much and given much, and who . Wen, old man!, . of flaw. The of the little earliest sent to each' We market sot being do with . that the 10(b think year, I was thinking of Helen, he said. I matched ont the sealed envelope and atill. In hla simple heart, asked no wes crossing from tbe ffamera a consequent decrease In the number pound steer will ever be entirely waa "So L Buttons." to Holbrook; Arthur turned with It praise for what he had done. her whistle echoing and reechq-Is- g Of breeding animals on the range. ' One eliminated from the market, bat we They are different, the two. They and he took It Into hla hands and He was strong, and I was weak; the lake. round of the greatest problems that .con- do think (If a conjecture toaUowable are very different It over though his ; I r . r. tfli 3 f ? iw o ; o' 1 -- V . A X-j- k canoe-make- rs rs d p. canoe-make- nt te-7- 5 aqI1 ;Chn-ditio- te t outI endd jearfu . dan;. -- Water-logge- j , 1 XXIVe-rCflntln- j ley -- bv sakWel- vtl-lir- a, -- turned quietly, hands trembled. Tell pao the truth, gentlemen! and Mis Fat voice thrilled now with anger. Trickery, more trickery; those were stolen from Helen! blurted Henry, hla eyes on the envelope; but we to were waiting for the canoe-make- r speak, and Henrys word rang emptily In the shop.. Arthur looked at bis brother;' then he faced hla sister. Henry la not guilty," he said, calmly. He turned with a quick gesture and thrust the envelope into the flame of one of the candles; but Helen sprang -- forward and caught away the blazing packet and smothered the flame between her hands. We will keep the proof she said In a tqpenf triumph; and 1 knew then how completely die had believed In .her father. I dont know what la In that packet," aald Gillespie, slowly, speaking for the first time. It has never been opened. My lawyer told me that father had sworn to a statement about the, trouble with Holbrook Brothers and placed it with the notes. My father was a peculiar man .In some ways," continued Gillespie, embarrassed by the attention that was now riveted upoh him. "His lawyer told me that t was to open that package-bef-ore before marrying Into" snd be grew red and stammered helplessly, with his eyes on the floor 'before marrying Into the Holbrook family. I gave np that packet" and he hesitated, coloring, and turning from Helby mistake. Bnt its en to Rosalind mine, and I demand It now." I wish Aunt Pat to open tbe envelope," sald Rosaiind, very white. upon of a look appeal Henry turned his brother; but Miss Pat took tbe envelope from Helen and tore It open; and we stood by as though we waited for death or watched earth fall upon a grave. She bent down to one of the candles nearest her and took ont tbe notes, which were wrapped In a sheet of legal cap. A red seal brightened In ratthe light, and we heard tle of the paper in her tremulous fingers as she read. Suddenly a tear flashed upon the white sheet. When she had quite finished she gathered Gillespies statement and the notes In her hand And turned and gave them to Henry; but she' did not speak to him or meet his eyes. She crossed to where Arthur stood beside me, his .head bowed, and as she advanced he nrued away; but her arms stole over said Arthur bis shoulders, and.-sh, once, and again Very softly. -- the-slig- e and I did for him what I could. And what I gave, I gave freely, for it is not often In this world that tbe weak may help the strong.. .He bad tbe gifts, Pat, that I had not, and trpops of friends; and he had ambitions that In my weakness I Was not capable of; so I bad not much 0 give. But what 1 bad, Pat,-gave to him; I Went to Gillespie and confessed; I took tbe blame; and I came here jind worked with my hands with my hands " And he extended them as though the proof were asked; and kept repeating, between hla nobs: With my bands." CHAPTER XXV. Daybreak. At midnight Gillespie and I discussed the days affairs on the terrace at Glenarm. There were long pauses in our talk. Such things as we bad seen and heard that night, in the canoe-maker- s shop on the little creek, were beyond our poor range of words. And In the silences my own reflections were not wholly happy. If Miss Pat and Rosalind had not followed me to I might have spared the canoe-maker- s Helen; but looking back, 1 Would not change U now if 1 could. Helen had returned to SL Agathas with her annt, who would have it so; and we had parted at the school door, Mlaa Pat and Helen. Gillespie and L with restraint hcavy upon us aH. MIis Pat had, It seemed, summoned her lawyer from New York several days before, to discuss the final settlement of her fathers estate; and he was expected tbe next morning. I had asked them all to Glenarm for breakfast; and Arthur Holbrook and Rosalind, and Henry, who had broken down at the end, bad agreed to come. As we talked on, Gillespie and I. ! there under the stars, he disclosed. airhnconaclously, new and surprising traits, and I felt my heart warming to him. 'Hes a good deal of a man, that Arthur Holbrook," he remarked after a long pause. He's beyond roe. Tbe man wbo runs the enemy's lines to bring relief to the garrison, or tbe leader of a forlorn hope, la tame after this. I suppose the world would call him a fool." , Undoubtedly," I answered. "But he didn't do It for the, world; be did It for himself. We cant applaud a thing like that In the usual phrases. only get "No," Gillespie added; and bow our down on our knee heads in the dust before It He rose and paced tbe long, terrace. In his boat hoes and white' flannel he elided noiselessly back and" forth. TThe about done for, aald They are aa like aa God ever made Qulesple sloops over hla shoulder; and we two .people; and yet they are differdrive oar blades deeper. ' Tbe 8tlletto ent" wad floating stern-oand rolling kg-SflM think you understand Helen 1 bnt retaining atill, I thought, never did, he declared, mournfully. something of the sinister air that she You dont have to," I replied; and bad worn on her strange business laughed, and rose and stood behind through those summer days. him. And now theres something I 8he went to bed all right; see, her want to speak to yon about saQa are furled snug and everythings Helen borrowed some money of you a In shape. The storm drove her over little while ago to meet one of her here," ' said Gillespie. "Shes struck fathers demands. I expect a draft for something, or somebody's smashed that money by the morning mail, and I her." w want you to accept it with my thank, It seemed Impossible that the storm and hers. And the Incident shall pass unassisted had blown her from Battle as though.lt had never been." Orchard across Lake Annandale; but About one o'clock the wind fresh- we were now close upon her and seekened and tbe trees flnng out their ing for means of getting aboard. arms Hke runners rnshlng before It; 8bea a bit sloppy," observed Giland from the went marched a storm lespie, as we swung round and caught with banners of lightning. It was a bold. The water gurgled drunkeniy splendid spectacle, and we went In- In the cuddy, and a broken lantern ratdoors only when tbe rain began to tled on the deck. I held last as he wash across the I terrace. We atill climbed over, sending me off a little watched it from our wlndowa after as he jumped aboard, and 1 waa work we went upstairs,' the lightning now ing back again with the paddle when blazing out blindingly, like sheets' of he cried out In alarm. flame from a furnace door, and again Aa I came alongside be came back cracking about tbe bouse tike a fiery to help me, and when he bent over te whip'. Catch the painter I saw that hla face We ought to have brought Henry waa white. ; here remarked Gillespie. ' fWs might have known ft," he said. "Hes alone over there on thq island "It'a the last and worst that could hapIth that dago and theyre likely cele- pen." brating by getting drunk. Face down across the cuddy lay the Tbe lightning getting on your body of Henry Holbrook. Hie water-soakenerves; go to bed," I called back. clothing was torn as though Tbe storm left peace behind and I In a fierce struggle. A knife thrust abroad early, eager to have tbe In tbe side told tbe story; he had first shock of tbe mornings meetings crawled to the cuddy roof to get away over. Gillespie greeted me cheerily from the water and had died there. and I told him to follow when he waa It wae the Italian," said Gillespie. ready. I went out and paced tbe walk "They must have had a row last night between .the bouse and St Agatha's after we left them, and it came to and aa I peered through the Iron gate this. He chopped a hole ln the Stilet-and set her adrift .to link." I and turn intq the garden. I came upon I looked about for the steamer, her walking slowly with her hands which was backing away from the pier clasped behind her. She spoke first at Port Annandale, and signaled her as though to avoid any expression of with my handl'erchiet,. And when 1 faced Gillespie again hd pointed sisympathy, putting ont her hand. Filmy lace at the wrist gave to her lently toward the lower lake, where a hands a quaint toneb akin to that Im- canoe rode the bright water. parted by the cap on her white heed, i Rosalind and her father were on I was struck afresh by the background their way from Red Gate to Glenarm. that seemed always to be sketched In Two blades flashed In the sun aa the for her, and just now, beyond the canoe came toward na. Gillespie's lips bright garden, It wag a candle-lightequivered and he tried to speak as he garret, with trunks of old letter tied pointed to them; and then we both in dim ribbons, and lavender' scented turned silently toward St Agathaa, chests of Valenciepnea and silks In where the chapel tower rose above tbe green wood. forgotten patterns. I am well, qultd well, Larry! .. Stay and do what is to be done, I I am glad! I wished to be rare! Mid. I win find Helen end tell her Do not trouble about, me. -- Iem THjS END. glad of everything that baa happened "" The Gentleman, glad and relieved. . And 1, an grateful to you. Hd 4a gentlelf.be doth whafkageth I have served you 111 enough. , 1 to a gentleman. Chaucer. -- . " d is U fronts the cattle feeder of today is that the baby beef animal will conwhere to gef hold of feeders. tinue' to Increase In popularity In , A number of people who used to those districts where men do not wiab-t- o feed cattle-t24 or 20 montbs of dairy sge In the corn belt are attempting to raise their own calves and market , ' Placing the Halter. them around 12 months of age or beWith two feucq staples fasten tween the ages of 12 and 18 months, harness snap from which the and weighing from 800 to 1,000 prtng has been broken to the r left This Is wbat Is known as aide of the horae stall at a convenient pounds. the baby beer proposition, end It la height above the manger,' says e a question that la exciting more In- writer In Practical Farmer, and see terest every year among cattle feed- that the boys hang op the halter ers and producers. -whenever tbe horse la taken out Baby beef has not been popular with When he la brought In, hi halter tear feeders because under condl-loin- s under his feet nor In tbe manformerly existing tbe man on ger under hit feed, but Just where It the range could produce them more can be reached most easily end quickcheaply than tbe man In the corn belt ly. The point of the snap should be could buy them. The extra land neces- hammered la -- slightly-to prevent the sary for maintaining breeding cows horse catching hie halter upon tt oz eould be used for corn; tbe feeding Injuring himself by rubbing. period of tbe baby beef animal lasted from 8 to or 12 months, while that The Delicious Sweet Pepper. of the 24 and Tour garden ought to be well supsteer only lasted from 80 to 180 daya Then, too, plied with that most palatable vegegreater uniformity end more Indica- table, the sweet pepper. Many peotions of better breeding are necessary ple Imagine that all peppers are too In tbe baby beef proposition In feeding hot to be eaten with comfort, but out older cattle. Greater skill in feed- this la a great mistake. The only ing and caring for tbe young animals hot portions are the seeds, and they Is also necessary than In the case of can be removed before cooking. the older onee whose appetites do not Green peppers are cooked in a vahave to be catered to. Tbe killer also riety of ways, and there la no vegediscriminated against tbe younger ani- table that produces more table enmal because the carcase of tbe older joyment than these vegetables If a animal usually carried a little-firm- er little study and care la given to their flesh than the young animal, and-the- re or the growth and preparation Is less water In tbe carcass, so that table. they kill out a larger per cent of good meat The feeder himself found that Spray for Cabtaga Worm. A good remedy for . the cabbage unless he exercised great vigilance, the young animals shrunk more in be- worm which Infests cauliflower and ing shipped to market and finally tbe cabbages la an ounce of saltpeter disconsumer favored the meat from the solved In three gallons of water. The older animal. beads should be thoroughly sprinkled If the cattle feeder alms to produce and If this la done one application bis own feeders, be cannot afford to 1 will be generally found suffldeDt. Ut an-ol- d ' ' BRACING CORNER FENCE POST d , 1 An excellent method for bracing in attrition and It la a corner fence post Is shown in tb . |